Mount Wuer, Taiyi Cave.
Sun Wukong knelt on the ground, his face swollen and bruised until even Tang Sanzang could no longer recognize him.
His vaunted Indestructible Vajra Body seemed to have failed him. It had displayed not the slightest trace of divine ability. Zhu Bajie had not even used Solar True Fire; his fists alone had been enough to pin Sun Wukong to the ground and use him as a rag.
The Great Sage and the Second Junior Brother met for the first time and swiftly established their respective places in the brotherhood.
The Great Sage was simply a junior brother.
This differed somewhat from Sun Wukong's plan. In his expectations, he should have been the one standing, while Zhu Bajie should have been the one kneeling.
The monkey's heart was exhausted. The walkthrough was fake, wrong from beginning to end. If he followed it again next time, he would be a damn fool.
Taking that beating had not been for nothing. After their physical exchange, he finally learned exactly what sort of holy figure the pig's head before him was.
The Solar Star Lord who had once wreaked havoc in Heaven.
Sun Wukong had also unlocked the achievement for Havoc in Heaven, but he had been a hired stand-in. The record looked glorious, yet it had nothing to do with the monkey he truly was.
The Solar Star Lord was different. His Havoc in Heaven had been genuine. He had first broken the Discipline Division's Star Array, then defeated hundreds of Spirit Officials. He had been shot down by True Martial Emperor, Heaven's Minister of Public Security, and even with a Phoenix Emperor Sacred Arrow—specially designed to counter the Golden Crow Bloodline—sticking through his body, he had still remained unstoppable.
Only when Great Emperor Changsheng of the Southern